Maya Angelou, Julian Mayfield, and Others in Ghana (1963)

Three Black men in suits and two Black women in dresses protesting, as other people protest in the background. The woman on the right, Maya Angelou, is holding a sign, the bottom of which reads "W.E.B. Du Bois."

Source: A photograph from 1963 of Julian Mayfield, Alphaeus Hunton, Alice Windom, W. A. Jeanpierre, and Maya Angelou Make outside the US Embassy in Accra, Ghana, where a community of African American expatriates lived (New York Public Library Digital Collections)

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A Photograph of Julian Mayfield, Maya Angelou, and Other African Americans in Ghana (1963)

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